Skate-fastening



UNITEDV STATES JOHN DOYLE, OF 'HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

SKATE-FASTENING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,201, dated January l2, 1964.

.T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DoYLE, ot' Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Skate-Fastening; and I do hereby decla-re that the following is a full, clear, and evact description of the same, reference being 4h 1d to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line w x, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to a new and irnproved heel-fastening for skates; and it consists in the employment or use of a heel-plate and an adjustable bar, the lat-ter being operated by a cam, and the former secured to the runner of the skate, in connection with a hooi; or screw attached to the adjustable bar and a slotted plate attached to the sole of the boot or shoe, all arranged as hereinafter set forth.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the runner of a skate, and B represents a heel-plate, which is attached to or cast with a metal block, C, the latter being secured permanently to the upper edge of the back part of the runner by rivets a. (See Fig. l.)

In the block O there is made a rectangular opening to receive a bar, D, the latter being allowed to slide freely up and down in C, and in the block C there is placed a cam, E,which is fitted on a shaft, F, the ends of the latter passing through the block O, one end of the shaft having a lever, G, tted upon it. The bar D has a circular or nearly circular opening, b, made through it transversely, and in this opening the cam E works, said cam, when the shaft F is turned, raisin g and lowering' the bar D. (See Fig. l, in which the bar D is shown in an elevated position in red.) In the upper surface of the bar D, at its back part, the re is a screw, G', the head o of which serves the office ot' a hook to catch into a slotted plate, H, firmly attached to the sole d of the boot or shoe adjoining the heel c. This slotted plate H receives the head o of the screw G,

and by turning the shaft F in the proper direction the heel e of the boot or shoe and the heel-plate B will be brought snugly in con tact, and the back part of the skate firmly secured to the boot or shoe.

I would remark that any suitable fastening may be used for securing the front part ofthe skate to the boot or shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The heel-plate B, attached to or cast with the block O, which is secured to the runner A, in combination with the slotted plate H, secured to the soled of the boot or shoe, and the adjustable bar D, provided with the screw G', or its. equivalent, and operated by the cam E, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN DOYLE.

Witnesses:

Tiros. L. J. DOUGLAS, GEO. W. REED. 

